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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland," in Cannon building on Wednesday, December 11, 2025. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Michael Glasheen, operations director, National Security Branch, FBI, also testified. (Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images)

Senior US official: Iran was "no threat"

Alex Galbraith

Joe Kent resigned from the Trump admin on Tuesday, accusing the US of being pulled into a war by Israel

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

House subpoenas Bondi over Epstein files

Alex Galbraith

"We want the truth," a top Democrat on the Oversight Committee shared

People held in custody in a cell during a walk around El Salvador CECOT mega prison in the municipality of Tecoluca on January 30, 2026 in San Vicente, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)

El Salvador is disappearing US deportees

Garrett Owen

Families and lawyers of CECOT detainees have been kept in the dark

Women thrown under the bus (Deagreez/Getty Images)

The women who belong under the bus

Andi Zeisler

Maxwell and Noem were happy to work on behalf of terrible men — and neither can claim that they lacked real power

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Irish potatoes (Handmade Pictures / Getty Images )

A sweet Irish potato impostor

Francesca Giangiulio

This candy looks like a potato, tastes like coconut and rarely travels far from Philadelphia

Stop settling for sad parfaits

Ashlie D. Stevens

Roast the fruit. Brighten the yogurt. Salt the granola. A few small moves, a better parfait

President Donald Trump has threatened reporters with treason over Iran war coverage (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump to media: Cheer the war — or else

Sophia Tesfaye

The president and FCC Chair Brendan Carr are threatening journalists and broadcasters for their Iran coverage

A protester joins the "No Kings" rally in Moscow, Idaho, in June 2025. (Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Even MAGA country is protesting Trump

Chauncey DeVega

New research shows a small but growing protest movement in areas that voted overwhelmingly for the president

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) talks to reporters after meeting with some of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers at the U.S. Capitol on September 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Big money shapes Illinois Senate primary

Russell Payne

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has raised much more cash than Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and other primary challengers

A dark smoke cloud engulfs destroyed vehicles near an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is weaponizing climate change

Troy Farah

The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable

Student loan borrowers gather near The White House to tell President Biden to cancel student debt on May 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Student debt crisis falls hard on women

Nadra Nittle - The 19th

Confusion, litigation and the threat of wage garnishment have left millions with few options and little hope

The Kansas state capitol in Topeka. (Photo by Don and Melinda Crawford/Getty Images)

License law leaves trans Kansans in bind

Garrett Owen

An ACLU attorney told Salon that a new law places trans Kansans in an "impossible position"

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Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Iran exposes Vance and Rubio's rivalry

Heather Digby Parton

The widening Middle East war has made it clear that Republicans learned nothing from Democrats' political missteps

Michael B. Jordan accepts the Actor in a Leading Role award for "Sinners" onstage during the 98th Oscars (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

An (almost) optimistic Oscars

Coleman Spilde

Host Conan O'Brien wanted the ceremony to indicate hope for the future. It only hit the mark half the time

The Trump administration  has refused to rule out ground troops in Iran (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

Draft talk returns to Washington

Chauncey DeVega

Leavitt’s comments about a possible draft hint at something far more plausible: expanded presidential powers

A Transportation Security Administration officer looks over passenger security checkpoint during a tour of the Emergency Preparedness and Domestic Security Program at Los Angeles International Airport 06 March 2003. (Photo by LEE CELANO/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS funding lapse fuels domestic fears

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Some worry the partial shutdown leaves the U.S. vulnerable amid the war with Iran

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to try to find allies for the Ukraine-Russia War. He warned about the newest development with the Iran War might be at best a distraction, and at worst a revenue stream to Russia. (Maksym Kishka / Frontliner / Getty Images)

Iran war helps Russia, Zelenskyy warns

CK Smith

Ukrainian leader cites higher oil prices and U.S. distraction as risks to ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr echoed President Trump's warning on media to cover the Iran War according to his viewpoint or suffer the consequences. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

FCC warns broadcasters covering Iran War

CK Smith

Trump and FCC attack networks' Iran war coverage, critics warn of chilling effect on press freedom

Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by KC McGinnis/Getty Images)

Buttigieg: Trump uses war dead as props

Alex Galbraith

The former Cabinet official said that Trump was "unfit" to lead

Nina Kiri in "Undertone" (Dustin Rabin/A24)

Horror's crucial less-is-more lesson

Coleman Spilde

A24's latest chiller is a master class in getting under the skin — until it falls back on old tricks

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Jeremy Culhane as Tucker Carlson, and anchor Colin Jost during Weekend Update on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo by Will Heath/NBC)

"SNL" gets Carlson's take on Oscars

Alex Galbraith

Jeremy Culhane played the former Fox News host as a constantly confused cinephile

Potluck (Nicole Kandi)

How to become a potluck person

Ashlie D. Stevens

A guide to hosting — or showing up to — the modern potluck without the awkwardness

President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Illustration by Getty Images/Salon)

When a narcissist led the world into war

Andrew O'Hehir

Kaiser Wilhelm II was an erratic despot known for unhinged foreign policy schemes. The result was catastrophe

President Donald Trump ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump's Strait of Hormuz problem

Heather Digby Parton

Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane

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